Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-01
]1BSUITS OF HEAVEN.
Nature is Once Made God
|.,.f Efadicates the Chief Char
.,t.,istics Of Its Temperament.
cried Friends Doing In Heaven
ps 81 in Their Best Moments They
D' MD While on Earth.
xot the Rigid and Formal Place
I''H p.an,s photograph It-specu-
I.tion as 20 Tho future

-. .hs RigId and Formal Place
I''n peap,e photograph It-specu-
;'lu' ,at,on as 20 Tho future.
= = FsurroSs, July 3l.-The Rev.
p r,rr Ta.nage's sermon for this
NV" ,res on the "Employments Of
20 y and his text the 1st verse, On.
..,'I 1zsElsl: "Now it came to pass in
| ..- 11 yesr, in the fourth month, in
-, dsg of the month, rs l WAS
-, ~ csptives by the river OF Che
the heavens were opened"
.;s with others, hsd been expa-
and VILE in foreign slavery was
80 on the banks of the royal canal
49, - s2t ether serfs mad been con
..1to dix By the order of Nebuchad-
mi, royal canal, in 1.-THE text,
@.sa river Of Chsb1r; the ilIustrious
"a visions of Heaven. Indeed, it
80 -. sIwsys so that the brightest Wis
:; Eosyen come net to those who
/ :. mountain top of prosperity, but TO
r ~, on cesolate Patmos, or to
9srI il M4mertine dungeon, or 10
,-r,-kfeI Standing on the banks Of g
md been compelled to dis-yca,
--.o-v 10 the heart broken. 10
= -7om sorrow has banished.
+. ~. i very particular to give Us
- fine of the vision. 1t w2s in
'....tieta Tear, and in the fourth
- g7i in the fifth day Of the month.
rr1 nave had visions Of earth you
-srf- forget. You remember the
Top remember the month, you re-
-a5- the hour. Why may not we have
{ inch vision this morning, and it be
:. siytb month aud in the fourth day
IL month:
f. perhaps never eudibly pro-
-3sd: "Wast are our departed
Ian friends doing now?" The
;-9n : more easily answered than
n;gh. psrhaps suppose. Though
t. has come no recent intelligence
| the heavenly city, and we seem de-
4 Inf upon the story of eighteen cen
ago, still I think We may from the
res. inference decide what are the
mt occupations CT our transferred
,5,E.
es- Goi has made g nature he never
cs.es the chief characteristics OF
.-1peramart. You never knew g man
:.r,tc in temperament to become
me il temperament. You never
.r8mln s2nguine in temperament to
! me pllegmatic in temperament. Con
..l plants new principles in the soul,
h Pau, ard John are Just as differen.
each other after conversion as
we're different from each other be-
conversion. II conversion does not
4 -eate the prominent characteristics
= temperament, nSitner will death
ERADICATE THEM.
IT, have then only, by G sum in SUB
.a.r and 8 sum in addition, TO decide
ks.8re ne employmeIts Of your de-
t. friends in the better world. Y0u
! % subtract from them all earthly
8less and gil earthly goodness, ant
y91 s-e to come 10 the conclusion
j. ley are doing now in heaven wnat
.s.r best moments they did on earth
reason that 80 many people nevel
r !0C heaven IS because they coUll
sand /. if they 20 there if it should
u gu. 10 be the ri9id and formal plac,
-s people phOtogrS oh it.
like 10 come 10 church, but II;
ri no. want to stay here to mex
s.mss We Ike 10 hear the Halle,
1l15yus, but we would not want Il
r: al the ume for fifty centuries.
z, 3e on so sc great occasion it wCull
A2ly comfortable to weaT crown
god weighing several pounds, but
I'd De 81 aiiljCti0n 10 wear such {
IN forever. In other words, we run N
1.dons Of heaven into the ground
We maze that which was INTENDED
special snd cele5rative TO be the ex
%ye employment Of the heaven. 70,
! S. we'll, il asked TO describe tn
s OF American society, describe I
Aao1 Day, or Fourth of July, 0
a@lnnal Thanksgiving, as though
Z: 81 tie time that way.
81 not going 10 speculate IN regar
{ l1.ure world, but l must by newt
4Ts OF inference and deduction an
--ol sense, conclude that in heavel
VI be Just as different from csc,
S Ne are now different, and henc
-eye VII. be 81 least as many differ
l2oymonts in the celestial world 8
= lie emp.oyments here. Christ IS {
:. great love, the great Joy, the grea
~ Ile great worship of heaven; bu
Ii. a9oliSl employment? No NOR
-oyeS on eerth-paternal, fila
@ls-, coOjugal love,
-1V4Ish EARTHLY OCCUPATION.
!. lie arst place, remark that s
!. u our departed Christian friend
a-'l found great Joy in the fine art
~" lnou-glBg their tastes II III
--sect!on. On earth they had thei
--s& Pleasures amid pictures 81
..a,!, sld IN the study Of the laws {
=. Slsde and perspective. Hay
=. .dea that that afluance of facult
~, ~. collapsed and persisted? VIII
,-sl tlere is more for them to loo
:. ,2ey have keener appreciation {
''a1Itu., and they stand amid ii
-o1lS where the sunsets and tt
.."> sI1 the spring morning 81
you SO obtuse as to suppose thi
E 'Ae painter drops his easel an
..,p,eC MS chjsel ard the engravt
r,'.-5' nat therefore that taste, whiC
: charging and intensifying &c
y Lily years, is entirely obliter
1leSe artists, or these friends {
es.ta worked in course. mater
~ WIN Imperfect brsin and wi
-sno. Now they have carrie
=. into larger liberties and In
I.:Icumterence. They are st the
.-S.ltss yer but without the fatigue
~ ne limitations, without the hi
.ts u the terrestrial studio.
T.Se! could now improve upon t
~sSIeFpiece of Michael the Arc
~" that he has seen him, 81
F,;-pgcye upon his masterpiece
FAMILY now that he has visit
4ichael Angelo could better pr